IBM / Red Hat

On December 11, CIOs gathered in Minneapolis for a one-day regional conference featuring keynotes and executive boardroom sessions from leaders in IT. These CIO Executive Summits, hosted by Evanta, offer executive leadership the opportunity to spend a day exchanging insights with peers, gaining exposure to best practices, and creating new partnerships. Each event is led […]

The IBM Business Automation Content Analyzer, which is available as SaaS in IBM’s cloud, can now be deployed on-prem, or in your preferred cloud provider. Instructions to DIY can be found here. Or call Perficient, and we’ll help you plan and deploy it.     I’ve since deployed 19.0.3. Here is a quick demo video […]

The ultimate goal of all software development is the secure software release of the system to a user-accessible production environment. However, the road from code to production is often a long and perilous one. To reduce the apparent risk associated with a production release, many organizations place “gates” at various points along the release path. […]

Our Livonia, Michigan office is now an official Red Hat exam center. The exam center is open to the public. It provides a secure, classroom environment for developers that need to take any Red Hat exam or certification, including those for Ansible, JBoss, Linux, and OpenShift. There is no additional cost for utilizing the exam […]

With the growing popularity of the cloud, enterprises are looking for ways to adopt cloud-native development into their existing processes. New applications can be built using cloud models and services, microservices, autonomous development teams, agile and continuous development, and containers. However, it is time-consuming, costly, and inefficient to create new applications instead of learning to […]

A couple of months ago, I did a video about spinning up a local P8 development instance in Docker. IBM has taken containerized instances a step further where P8 can also be deployed to Kubernetes. Here, I go through the steps involved to achieve a successful deployment. The container-sample, and container-navigator GIT repos mentioned in […]

Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) provides enterprises with a number of benefits, including the ability to iterate, deliver features, and reach your market faster than ever before. ARO is a fully managed Red Hat OpenShift service on Azure – jointly engineered, operated, and supported by Microsoft. Built upon a Kubernetes foundation and fully integrated into […]

Enterprises want to take advantage of best-in-class technology, whether it is on-premises or a service in the public cloud. Ultimately, their goals are to streamline operations, remain secure and compliant, and save money. Red Hat OpenShift, an open-source container platform based on Kubernetes that helps enterprises modernize and build applications, solves for these needs.  OpenShift […]

On Tuesday, Nov. 5, Red Hat hosted a Red Hat User Group (RHUG) at Surly Brewing Company in Minneapolis, where attendees heard a technical presentation about Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) from two of our Microsoft directors, Steve Holstad and David Palfery. The RHUG format provides a space for attendees – regardless of skill level […]

Here is something I’m working on at Perficient to make installing/upgrading, configuring, and deploying IBM FileNet P8 more efficient. It even creates a Domain, and Object Store. All using Ansible. If your organization is looking to implement something like this in your environment, give Perficient a call. We’ll be happy to assist.    For […]

Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) provides enterprises with a number of benefits, including the ability to simplify processes, focus on development, harness the power of DevOps, and reduce time to market. With ARO, you are able to iterate faster, deliver features quicker, and reach your market at a faster pace. ARO is a fully managed […]

Four of our technical architects joined 1,900 other attendees at the Red Hat Technical Exchange North America in Orlando, Florida, Oct. 14-18. This is the first time the Technical Exchange has been open to Red Hat partners – historically, it was a Red Hat-only event.   The weeklong conference gave attendees a chance to network with Red Hat’s […]